My wife and I were a two-car family. She used hers for work and to cart our kids around town. And while I started biking to my job three years ago, I needed mine for weekend work located nowhere near a Metro or early morning weekend bus service. I thought I needed it, anyway... Keep reading…

San Diego has big environmental goals that include getting a whole lot of people to stop driving, coastal cities are, indeed, generally more expensive than those in the middle of the country, and Uber is losing a lot of money. Check out what’s going on in the world of housing, transportation, and cities around the globe.
Lofty goals for San Diego: San Diego’s… Keep reading…

Did you know that:
• Most millennials don’t use Uber?
• Most millennials don’t shop at Wegman’s?
• Most millennials don’t live in Austin?
• Most millennials in the Washington region drive to work alone?
• Most people may be misled by recent headlines about millennials? Keep reading…

A general manager, almost; More time for PTC; Teetering toward tolls; Creative cops; Test the testing; Drive-to urbanism; For the public good, or not; The self-driving choice; Idaho in Europe. Keep reading…

Montgomery County leaders and residents want walkable, transit-served neighborhoods, but the county’s department of transportation has a reputation for putting cars over everything else. Now that two of the agency’s top officials have departed, will new leadership bring the department in line with a changing county?
MCDOT’s former director Art… Keep reading…

Soccer stadium a go; New transit authority in MoCo?; Stevens School gets new life; Metro hat in hand; Scrap public land for affordable housing?; Steel City welcomes bikes; Zoning is never about exclusion; And…. Keep reading…

A raft of recent research indicates that young adults just aren’t as into driving as their parents were. Young people today are walking, biking, and riding transit more while driving less than previous generations did at the same age.
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From the time we got married, my wife and I were a two-car family. She used hers for work and to cart our kids around town. And while I started biking to my job in Arlington from our home in Glover Park three years ago, I needed mine for weekend Army Reserve work located in Adelphi, which is nowhere near a Metro or early morning weekend bus service.
I thought I needed it, anyway.
But… Keep reading…

For the vast majority of DC’s new residents, Car Free Day (September 22) isn’t a once-a-year event, but a year-round occasion. Between 2010 and 2012, the number of car-free households in in the District of Columbia grew by 12,612 — fully 88% of new households citywide.
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More buses on 16th Street; An electric Circulator?; Less parking, more business; More bikes, fewer tickets; Housing for the homeless; Theater for Union Market?; Look to Oregon’s Trails; And…. Keep reading…